The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Introduction Evidence-Based Policing and Fatal Police Shootings: Promise, Problems and Prospects - Lawrence W. Sherman Patterns of Fatal Police Shootings Organizational Accidents and Fatal Police Shootings: Theory, Research, Policy and Practice - David Klinger Firearms Availability, Trauma Centers, and Fatal Police Shooting Rates - Daniel Nagin The Role of Individual Officer Characteristics in Police Shootings - Gregory Ridgeway Predicting Bad Policing: Burdensome and Racially Disparate Policing, Social Psychology, and Routine Activities Theory - Philip Atiba Goff Officer Complaint History, Social Networks, and Police Who Shoot - Linda Zhao and Andrew Papachristos Policy-Making and Fatal Police Shootings Police Killings as a Problem of Governance - Franklin E. Zimring Social Interaction Training to Reduce Police Use of Force - Geoffrey Alpert, Jeff Rojek, Scott Wolfe and Kyle McLean Moving Beyond "Best Practice:" The Need for Evidence to Reduce Officer-Involved Shootings - Robin Engel, Hannah McManus, and Gabrielle Isaza Reducing violent incidents between police officers and people with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders - Harold Pollack and Keith Humphreys Preventing Avoidable Fatalities Police Transport of Shooting Victims to Hospitals: Effectiveness and Scalability - Sara F. Jacoby, Paul M. Reeping, and Charles C. Branas Reconciling Police and Communities With Apologies, Acknowledgements, or Both: A Randomized Experiment - Thomas O'Brien, Tracey L. Meares, and Tom R. Tyler Preventing Avoidable Deaths in Police Encounters With Citizens - Lawrence W. Sherman Afterword: A Policy-Maker's View Fatal Police Shootings and the US Department of Justice - Laurie O. Robinson